INDEX
2004
November 9,
2004 (Vol. 25, No. 5)
NEWS
BUREAU
BRIEFS
UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS: UCLA has launched
a new gateway Web site that streamlines information into categories
while also offering exciting, new multimedia features....
SCHOOL OF LAW: Television personality Bob Barker donated
$1 million to the School of Law to create the Bob Barker Endowment
Fund for the Study of Animal Rights Law.... UNIVERSITY OF
CALIFORNIA : The University of California, lead plaintiff
representing a class of Enron investors who lost billions of dollars,
recently announced a $222.5-million settlement with Lehman Brothers
in the securities class-action lawsuit.
VOTE OPENS UP NEW
FUNDING
Despite the chasm that divided the nation over the
presidential race, election 2004 brought together a majority of
California voters in support of some important issues that will
have consequences for UC and UCLA.
INNOVATORS
SEE EXCITING FUTURE FOR THE INTERNET
The Internet has come a long way since the first message
was sent into cyberspace by a clunky computer at UCLA under the
guidance of Professor Leonard Kleinrock on Oct. 29, 1969. Yet for
all the amazing developments since then, the Internet is essentially
in its Stone Age, said experts at a UCLA symposium last month marking
the Internet’s 35th birthday.
PARTNERSHIP
As part of its ongoing efforts to study, document and promote
Chicano art, UCLA’s Chicano Studies Research Center and the
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) have joined forces to launch
a Latino arts initiative.
NEWS 2
CAMPUS
BRIEFS
YO QUIERO TACO BELL: Taco Bell, which has dished
out burritos and other fast food at Campus Corner for a decade,
pulled out of its location Oct. 29 after ASUCLA’s Board of
Directors voted not to renew its food service contract....
TEACHING WITH TECHNOLOGY: UCLA seeks to honor undergraduate
faculty from all departments and divisions who are using technology
to enrich and deepen students’ educational experiences in
innovative ways.... OPEN FOR BUSINESS: After two
years of planning and construction, Fleet and Transit Services opened
a new transit facility that provides employees with an improved
work environment and expands the department’s capacity for
vehicle maintenance, repairs and fueling.
WEB SITE HONORS
PIONEER WOMEN PHYSICISTS
After reviewing more than 1,000 Web sites, the editors of Scientific
American.com have chosen a UCLA Web site that documents the little-known
contributions of 20th-century women to physics as one of the 50
best science and technology Web sites of 2004.
UNHEALTHY AIR
- IT'S IN YOUR CAR
Long-distance commuters got some bad news recently. The amount of
time they spend in a vehicle typically is the most important factor
in determining overall exposure to diesel exhaust particles, according
to a UCLA Institute of the Environment (IoE) researcher.
DID YOU KNOW?
According to a survey taken last year, 79% of attendees
at UCLA Live performances have college degrees. In fact, 46% have
postgraduate degrees. UCLA Live concertgoers are also getting younger.
The average age has dropped from 48 to 46 since 2000.
YESTERDAY,
TODAY & TOMORROW
TOP TEACHERS: The Academic Senate is encouraging
UCLA community members to participate in the nomination process
for the 2004-05 Distinguished Teaching Awards.... LEGAL
ADVOCATES: UCLA Student Legal Services (SLS), which provides
legal information and assistance to undergraduate and graduate students,
celebrated its 35th year by bringing back to campus the student
leader who helped get it off the ground.... CHARTER CLASS:
UC Merced is preparing to receive its first applications
from prospective freshmen and transfer students who want to be among
the first to enroll at UC’s 10th campus next year.
PEOPLE
SEE'S GENEROSITY AIDS
STUDY OF SOCAL LITERATURE
When Carolyn See became the first UCLA student to write a doctoral
dissertation on Hollywood novels, she found 500 novels about Hollywood,
but only four novels about L.A.
NEW PREZ STARTS
OUT WITH A BANG
After Hassan Ghamlouch’s best friend spent a summer
in Los Angeles in 1984, he went home to Beirut, Lebanon, and convinced
his pal to return to California with him.
15 SECONDS
PETRINA LONG: Associate Director of Athletics/Senior
Women’s Administrator.
NAMES AND FACES
Applause: Gail
Wyatt ... Michael & Shari Weiner ... Gary Nash
... Steven M. Asch.
Bravo: Sebastian Edwards
... Arthur L. Brody ... TIES for Adoption Project ... Vicente Honrubia
... Maurice Zeitlin.
CAMPUS
MIDTERMS,
PAPERS PART OF LIFE FOR SOME WORKERS
Twenty years ago, Cia Ford started down two different
paths. Her first path with the UCLA Alumni Association led to a
professional career as a senior marketing manager. The other path
was to have led to a college degree, but it proved to be less direct
than she originally planned.
UCLA HELPS
FAMILIES COPE WITH GENETIC CANCERS
Tatiana Day grew up knowing that early-onset breast cancer
ran in her family. But last year, when her father, a physician in
Indiana, tested positive for a cancer-susceptibility gene called
BRCA2, a vague threat turned into a real danger.
'ROUND AND ABOUT
SIGNED TREASURES: “Authors and Actors: Signed
Books From the Collection of Lawrence Grobel,” an exhibit
of first editions signed and inscribed by prominent writers and
performers, is on view in the rotunda of Powell Library through
Dec. 23.... NEWS FLASH: UCLA chemists report the
discovery of a remarkable new nanoscale phenomenon.... RESEARCH
CENTER OPENS: The new Larry L. Hillblom Islet Research
Center at UCLA was dedicated Nov. 2 during a two-day event that
brought together a host of distinguished researchers for a series
of scientific presentations on diabetes, Down Syndrome, Alzheimer’s
and other medical topics.... UNEQUAL MEDICINE: A
new UCLA study shows that African-American HIV patients seen by
African-American doctors received better care than African-American
patients seeing white doctors.... A GREETING WITH MEANING:
This year, Mattel Children’s Hospital at UCLA is offering
five designs in its 2004 holiday card collection.
VOICES
KERRY'S
DOOM LAY IN BACKING A LOST CAUSE
Why was the reelection of President George Bush predictable? A look
back at 50 years of presidential campaigns makes it clear —
Kerry leveraged the wrong issue.
THE BITTER
PILL OF 'AMERICAN DEMOCRACY'
The recently concluded American elections are already being
touted as the most marvelous demonstration of the success and robustness
of American democracy. The lines to vote were extraordinarily long,
the prolific predictions about fraud fell flat, and a record number
of new (mostly young) voters made their presence felt at the polls.
Only the future lies ahead of this “amazing country,”
as President Bush put it.
PERSONAL
JOURNEY
The UCLA Summer Abroad Program recently made a lab course out of
a campus exercise in lectures and reading. My communications studies
course, “Images of America,” which revolves around classroom
discussions on the ideas people abroad have about the United States,
came to life when I taught it in Europe. It gained more from going
on the road than could any other course except art history.
OUR WORLD
by MATTHEW HENRY HALL
CLOSE UP
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
IN ACTION
Engaging with a community is no small task when that
community is spread across 4,000 square miles, numbers nearly
10 million residents, is among the most culturally diverse in
the nation and ranks as the 11th largest economy in the world.
So when UCLA’s Center for Community Partnerships set out
to develop a vehicle for community engagement, Associate Vice
Chancellor Franklin D. Gilliam Jr., who heads the center, knew
the Los Angeles area would be fertile ground for a model program
of enrichment and solutions-oriented collaboration.
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